The Day of Contrasts
Second day at the WFC2010
brought forward the other side of
the coin in the new style WFC.
Strong European floorball nations
beated their opponents in a very
rude way. In the end of the day,
Sweden made a questionnable new
record in winning numbers by 39-1
victory over Australia. Czech Rep.
crushed Japan 25-1 and Finland
manhandled Canada 14-2.
Finland, Russia, Sweden, Czech
Republic and Norway secured their
places in the quarterfinals. Group
B had a day of rest from the
games.

Russia has opened the tournament with two victories.
Odd enough, they were the underdogs both times, and
never really had complete control of the ball.
Their impressive start points fingers to their
goaltender. Combined, Canada and Russia have outshot
the Russians by 51 shots, but the points got splattered
on a stonewall called Sergey Pronyakov.
Despite the result, Pronyakov was one of the best
players in the Canada-match. He showed great reflexes
in the first two periods, single-handedly stopping
numerous scoring chances. The final score of 6–9 didn't
give him much credit, but in reality his 15 saves were
the key to victory.
The magnitude of Pronyakov's 21 saves is even greater
when looked at Alexander Gaihede's numbers in the
other end. The Denmark goaltender had only nine stops
all game. Pronyakov will get his skills completely tested
in the group's closing match, when they step in the rink
to face the reigning champions, Finland. The battle of
brilliant goaltenders will no doubt be interesting

- I instantly wanted to volunteer as a ball boy when
they started searching for staff for the WFC2010. I’ve
worked as a ball boy for the Finnish team Tapanilan Erä
as well.
An experienced 13-year-old Jani Autio enjoys his job, as
he gets to see the games from a very close point of
view.
-I’ve got two games per day. My job is to return the ball
to the rink when it goes out. We need to be careful
which corner will do the job, so that we don’t throw
two balls at the same time. It happened once today and
the referee needed to stop the game for a while.